Topband: Yikes! Heavy snow, freezing fog and 23 degrees F in Raleigh, NC

[Carl]

You can always prepare for your own safety Eddy; cut down trees that imperil 
buildings and vehicles, have a generator already pretested and in place, 
chain saw ready and tested in case you need to cut your way to a gas 
station, etc

For the 2008 storm we were without power 12-13 days I believe and my 
neighbor and I both had 4x4 pickups with plows and we cut and pushed a path 
for 2.5 miles off the hill to the main road. Others heard us coming and 
helped with a lot of the cutting but just 2 of us lived uphill and had the 
proper vehicles. It was a 26 mile RT to the nearest gas station that had 
power and we were the last part of town to get power restored due to the 
location and the way the utility had their work mapped out.

Preparing antennas is tricky when depending on trees and wire to cooperate. 
All 4 of my towers survived and so did wire antennas using #12 copperweld. 
Light duty WD11A type Beverages werent so lucky as were many elevated 
radials. But living in sight of the ocean directly in line with a typical 
Nor'easter (we get them year'round) about 20-25 miles away that I can see 
from the 100' level of a tower means this is not an occassional occurance in 
Southern NH and residents are better prepared. Losing power 3-4 times a year 
is the norm from storms or drunks hitting poles which happened 6 days ago at 
130AM at 10F outside. The genny was on in 10 minutes after I opened my eyes 
and didnt see the LED clock!

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eddy Swynar" <deswynar at xplornet.ca>
To: "Carl" <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>
Cc: "Charlie Cunningham" <charlie-cunningham at nc.rr.com>; 
<topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: Yikes! Heavy snow,freezing fog and 23 degrees F in 
Raleigh, NC


>
> On 2014-02-12, at 4:50 PM, Carl wrote:
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>> Hey, you had plenty of advanced warning this one was going to be brutal!
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>
> You can NEVER EVER properly prepare for what hit us here, Carl---NEVER.
>
> ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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